Munster Home To Saints In Heineken Opener

Munster will open their 2011/2012 Heineken Cup campaign against last season's beaten finalists Northampton Saints on Saturday November 12th, the game down for a 6pm kick off.

In what is a very difficult draw, there follows trips away, to Castres on November 19th (4.40pm ko local time) and then the first of the December back-to-backs, Scarlets (Parc Y Scarlets Dec 10th) with Franklin's Garden's the venue for the final pool match in January, a week after the visit of Castres to Thomond Park Stadium.

For the past two seasons, Munster have been away to English sides in Round One. The last time they had home advantage in the opener was in 2008 when Montauban were the visitors and it required a Ronan O'Gara penalty three minutes from time to see them win 19-17.